The mouth of the Red River was at a place that no longer exists: Red River Landing in Pointe Coupee Parish.

This map is a detailed representation of the geopolitical situation at the beginning of the Seven Years War (1756 to 1763), a conflict also called the "French Indian War" in the United States.

The history of the house at 301 East Lamar in McKinney includes a murder and a live burial!

William Whitlow's 3-D tombstone at Oakwood Cemetery in Fort Worth is truly an in-your-face kind of memorial, and the story behind it really encapsulates Fort Worth's short but colorful history.

A map from 1835 shows Cameron's Grant and a proposed boundary line, both at the Red River, and both unsuccessful.

Taking a road trip on the old Jefferson Highway is a treasure deserving of preserving.

US 75, once known by different names like the Postal Highway, King of Trails, and the Gulf Highway, can still be driven on its original routes from Kansas to Galveston.

The beautiful stone ditch that encompass little Stuart in Hughes County, Oklahoma, Choctaw Nation is a complete, and relatively intact, historic WPA project built to control malaria.

I'm not sure of the exact date it was established, but by 1868, the Chickasaw Manual Training School for Boys at Tishomingo was administered by Joshua and Lucretia Harley

At the turn of the 20th century, the town of Lehigh in Coal County, Indian Territory (now, of course, Oklahoma) was really something.

Opened in 1931 and promptly unusable, the Red River bridge between Love and Cooke counties looked good, but that's about it.

In maps of the United States/Texas/North America between 1820 and 1825, I noticed a place along the Red River in former Miller County, Arkansas Territory called "Williams Settlement." I began a search that took me into the aftermath of a major earthquake.

Steamboat Captain Igo provided testimony in the case, Oklahoma v. Texas about his time traversing the Red River.

Today, you'll have to WANT to go to Arkinda to get to Arkinda, formerly known as Choctaw City in Little River County, Arkansas.

How the Interstate obliterated a vintage Shreveport scene of the De Fatta grocery store, shot gun shacks, and hot tamale vendors.

In 1995, a business consultant introduced "disruptive innovation" which has become, for people like us "destructive innovation" instead.

Whether you're driving south or north over Interstate 35E to pass by downtown Dallas, poor you, you'll eventually cross the Trinity River.

In the margins in historic newspapers, reports act as if random horrors of racism and misogyny are everyday things.

I'm here to rant that loop highways and bypasses are stupid ideas.

The railroad leased a portion of the land to the Gordon Country Club outside of Paris, making it the first of its kind in northeast Texas.